The Bay leaf

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Native Here Nursery p. 5

Fridays, July 6, 13, 20, 27 and Aug 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Native
Here Nursery open 9 am -noon

Saturdays, July 7, 14, 21, 28 and Aug 4, 11, 18, 25, nursery
open 10 am - 1 pm

Tuesdays, July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and Aug 7, 14, 21, 28, seed
collection mornings

Field Trips p. 2

Saturday, July 7, 2007, all day trip to Calaveras Big Trees
State Park, meet at 11 am.

Sunday, July 22, 2 pm. Bird Trail (Chabot Regional Park)

Board Meeting

Wednesday, August 1, 7:30 pm (see President's message
below)

Chapter picnic p. 6

Native Here Nursery clean-up party and annual potluck
picnic for the East Bay Chapter of CNPS, Sunday, September
16, 2007, 10 am-3 pm. Native Here Nursery, 101 Golf Course
Road (across from the Golf Course entrance) in Tilden Park,
Berkeley

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Summer is vacation for some CNPS activities, no July board
meeting, no monthly membership meetings until fall, but
it is a very active time for us in other ways. Field trips are
planned throughout the summer. Committees will be meet-
ing. E-mails will be circulating. Plant Fair planning has
begun and lots of help will be needed. To volunteer, contact
nativehere@ebcnps.org. A picnic is being planned for Sep-
tember 16th, so mark your calendars and look for details in
the September issue.

The August meeting of the Chapter Board will be at 7:30
pm on August 1st at the Danielsens 1 , 10 Kerr Avenue, Kens-
ington. The plant science programs will be featured with a
presentation about the Priority Protection Areas that Heath
and Lech have been working on. Members are welcome to
attend this meeting.

It's half way through the year, so time to start thinking
about both chapter and statewide officer nominations. CNPS
by-laws were recently revised to require that nomination
petitions for statewide board members be endorsed by a
chapter board or five members of CNPS. Some qualities that
are sought to round out the state CNPS Board of Directors
are experience in publishing, and in fund-raising. Chapter
offices of President, Vice President, Treasurer, Correspond-
ing Secretary and Recording Secretary are elected positions.
A nominating committee will be named by September. Any
member wishing to serve on that committee is urged to
contact me through nativehere@cnps.org. Suggestions of
people to nominate are also welcome.

Committee chairs are still sought for Membership, Publicity,
and Hospitality, positions currently open and appointed by
the President. Contact me to find out more.

Charli Danielsen, President

Canyon gooseberry ( Ribes menziesii) fruit. Photo by Gregg
Weber

FIELD TRIPS IN JULY

Saturday, July 7, 2007, 11 am: all day trip to Calaveras Big
Trees State Park. Along with the big trees, there are lilies,
orchids, harlequin lupines, and many other forest plants.

Directions: get on Highway 4 east, either off 1-680 in Con-
cord, or off 1-5 at Stockton. Take 4 to Angels Camp (it joins
with 49 near Angels Camp) and then, in the center of Angels
Camp, take a left staying on 4 (and leaving 49). Calaveras
Big Trees State Park is about 20 miles from Angels Camp.
Enter the park and park at the main lot near the North Trail
(close to the entrance station). We will hike the North Trail,
and then the South Trail (if it is open) and visit some other
locations in the area. It takes about 3 hours to drive to the
park from San Francisco.

Please contact David Margolies (510-654-0283 (home),
510-393-1858 (cell), divaricatum@comcast.net) for more
information.

Sunday, July 22, 2 pm. Bird Trail (Chabot Regional Park)

This short (about 1/2 mile, with insignificant elevation gain)
trail is a botanically interesting transition zone between red-
wood forest and mixed evergreen forest (mostly oak/bay).
In summer, we should find scarlet monkey flower and vari-

HUMBOLDT REDWOODS STATE PARK

Most East Bay CNPS field trips are in the Bay Area, but
sometimes we go father afield. On May 26, we had an all
day trip to Humboldt Redwoods State Park and the Men-
docino coast.

Our main objective was the redwood lily, Lilium rubescens,
which grows in great numbers along the Avenue of the Gi-
ants in Humboldt Redwoods Park. It usually starts blooming
around Memorial Day weekend.

The trip was announced in the usual way, on our website and
in the Bay Leaf, but we also got unexpected extra publicity:
the San Francisco Chronicle has a what-to-do-this-weekend
section called 96 Hours, included with the Thursday paper.

Redwood lily ( Lilium rubescens), Humboldt Redwoods State
Park. Photo by Will Chatfield-Taylor

ous composites, while baneberry and other fruiting plants
should be in fruit. We may see the rare (in the East Bay)

Piperia elongata.

Directions: in the East Bay, from the north, take 24 to 13
south. From the south, take 580 north to 13. From San Fran-
cisco, take the Bay Bridge, staying to the right (but do not
go to San Jose), and take 580 East, and then 24 East (towards
Walnut Creek) and then 13 South. Once on 13, take the
Redwood Road exit. On Redwood Road, go east (uphill).
At the top of the hill you will cross Skyline Boulevard and
then pass various equestrian facilities. Go down into the
valley. About two miles from Skyline Boulevard, turn right
into the MacDonald Staging Area parking lot. (It is a large
lot and you cross a bridge over a creek; there is a small lot
about 1/4 mile to the north which is not the correct place; if
coming from the north you reach the entrance to Redwood
Regional Park on the left, you have gone about 1/4 mile
too far.) Please contact David Margolies (510-654-0283 or
510-393-1858 (cell), divaricatum@comcast.net) if you need
further information.

Janet Gawthrop

TRIP REPORT

On May 24, they featured our trip as the lead suggestion
in the Outdoors section. This attracted several people not
previously familiar with the CNPS or its programs. All in
all, there were 14 people on the trip.

We started at the Frank Lane Grove at the south end of the
park. This was really a convenient meeting place rather
than a floral hotspot. Most of the flowers present were early
bloomers that had already gone to fruit, such as fairybells
and trillium. There were stream violets (Viola glabella) in
bloom and numerous ferns.

Once everyone was assembled, we started up the avenue.
The lilies had just started to bloom, so it took a while to find a

Yellow globe lily ( Calochortus amabilis), Humboldt Redwoods State
Park. Photo by Will Chatfield-Taylor

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Woodland madia (Anisocarpus madioides), Humboldt Redwoods
State Park. Photo by Will Chatfield-Taylor

Cream cup ( Platystemon californica), MacKerricher State Park.
Photo by Will Chatfield-Taylor

good patch, but when we did, they were mixed with numer-
ous other flowers which had recently come out. The lily is
typically 3 to 6 feet tall, with whirled leaves and horizontal
flowers which start our white and turn pink to red as they
age. The illustration shows a single flower. Along with the
lilies, we saw the local globe lily ( Calochortus amabilis, illus-
trated), Indian pink (Silene californica), bead lily (Clintonia
andrewsiana), milkwort ( Polygala , probably californica), and
woodland tarweed (Anisocarpus madioides, formerly Madia
madioides, illustrated), among others.

We then went further up the avenue for lunch in the Federa-
tion Grove. This grove, purchased with donations collected
by women's clubs throughout California (the formal name
is the California Federation of Women's Clubs Grove) has
a beautiful picnic area with the fireplace designed by Julia
Morgan. In the area is a particularly fine albino redwood
sprout. Redwoods are unusual among conifers in that they
stump sprout: shoots separate from the main trunk spring
up from the root crown. Occasionally, the shoot has a mu-
tation that prevents it from producing chlorophyll. These
shoots have pure white needles. The shoot could not live
independently, of course, because it is unable to produce
food, but they survive connected to the parent tree. Most
albino shoots are just a foot or two tall. The one we saw
was unusually large, about 15 feet tall. (It is no good taking
a sprig of needles home to show off. They dry brown just
like green needles.)

Our last stop in Humboldt Park was in the Rockefeller for-
est, at about 10,000 acres, one of the largest virgin stands of
redwoods remaining. We were looking for phantom orchids
(Cephalanthera austiniae). We did find two, but unfortunately
still in bud.

We then drove to the Mendocino coast, to MacKerricher State
Park. This park, just north of Fort Bragg, has lovely coastal
bluffs and beaches. It was high tide, so we could not do much
tidepooling, but the flowers on the bluff were out in force.
There were baby blue eyes (Nemophila menziesii), California
buttercups ( Ranunculus califomicus), cream cups (Platystemon

califomicus, illustrated), sea thrift (Armeria maritima), dwarf
brodiaea (Brodiaea terrestris, illustrated), and the very striking
bicolored lotus (Lotus formosissimus).

Our final stop was the pygmy forest in Van Damme State
Park, just south of the village of Little River. Because of the
odd soil configuration (with impervious hardpan just a few
feet below ground), the soil at ground level is almost utterly
devoid of nutrients. Plants, mostly rhododendron (Rhododen-
dron macrophyllum), pygmy cypress (Cupressus goveniana ssp.
pigmaea) , and Bolander pine (Pinus contorta ssp. b olanderi)
are all stunted, with 100-year old specimens often being just
three or four feet high with trunks you can easily grasp with
your hand. There are not many flowers in that environment,
but we did see a special one: the rare coast lily (Lilium mari-
timum). It was a fine ending for a successful trip.

The pictures were all taken by Will Chatfield-Taylor, who
is a biology and mathematics student at the University of
Kansas. You may see many of his nature photographs (of
birds, animals, and insects as well as plants) on his website
at www.livingworldphotography.net.

David Margolies

Dwarf brodiaea (Brodieae terrestris), MacKerricher State Park.
Photo by Will Chatfield-Taylor

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CHAPTER COUNCIL MEETING

As your delegate to the chapter council I am learning how
CNPS governs itself, about current projects and future plans.
Here is what I found notable:

CNPS will co-host a scientific conference with the Wildlife
Society in Sacramento in spring 2009— a major undertak-
ing that will take a lot of work. It will be part of the CNPS
education program, and will be semi-annual or perhaps
every 3 years.

The cnps.org website has been improved, now you can join
or donate with a click.

There are hundreds of environmental bills being processed
in the State legislature. Summer is the time when a few
survive, with heavy lobbying by all concerned. To find out
where CNPS stands on a few, go to CNPS.org and click
“Conservation" on the top bar.

Then click on "Legislative Activities" on the quick link. Of
major concern is The Off-Road Vehicle Bill SB 742. The en-
vironmental groups are opposed as there is no obligation to
restore damaged areas.

Our state office now has four full time staff members, includ-
ing a new development director— Melissa Cirone (mcirone@
cnps.org. should you want to contribute). Our executive
director, Amanda Jorgensen, announced a generous bequest
of $80,000 from the trust of Jeffrey Burley of the Santa Monica
chapter.

The training workshops have been a huge success, and more
are planned.

The CNPS Policies for herbicide use and integrated weed
management are being worked out— check out the cnps.
org website, click conservation, then a quick link to CNPS
Policies and Guidelines for standing policies.

Charli Danielsen is the Chapter Council representative to
the CNPS Board of Directors, so if you would like bring an
item to the attention of the state BoD, please contact Charli
or me.

Delia Taylor, East Bay Chapter Council representative.

GRANT AWARDED FOR EBCNPS VEGETATION SCIENCE

EBCNPS is honored to have been awarded a $4,000 grant by
the Rose Foundation to aid the chapter in its conservation
activity. The newly formed, extremely energetic fundraising
committee put together an outstanding application for a
grant that will offset expenses for printing, distribution, and
completion of the project described below. In the last two
months the fundraising committee has raised about $30,000
for conservation related chapter activity.

Our goal is to produce a set of science-based maps that de-
lineate soil, geological, and habitat areas which are known
to give rise to rare, endangered, and otherwise unique plants
and communities in the two county area. The project has been
initiated to identify, map and prioritize the rare plant com-

munities and significant habitats that are most threatened in
Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. These maps and report
will be used as an educational tool to inform the planners and
decision makers about conservation priorities.

We are looking for a volunteer who may be interested in help-
ing with some editorial aspects of the project deliverables. If
interested, please contact Lech Naumovich at conservation©
ebcnps.org. Please visit our grantors and see the wonderful
work they're supporting at: www.rosefdn.org.

Lech Naumovich

Chapter Conservation Analyst

REQUEST FOR PHOTOS OF PLANTS IN

Over the next few months I want to develop a cooperative
online photo gallery documenting plants found in the Clare-
mont Canyon watershed on the Oakland/ Berkeley border.
The gallery will be a companion piece to the wildlife gallery
I started a few months ago, and which you can see at: http: / /
www.geocities.com/ kayloughman/ album/ index.html.
My experience with the wildlife gallery is that several folks
were willing to send pictures, and some of them knew the
identification of what they were sending, but I could identify
most that needed it. As I am not plant expert, I will depend
on contributions and identifications from others.

CLAREMONT CANYON

1. 1 would like pictures of plants growing in the wild.

2. The pictures must be taken in the Claremont Canyon wa-
tershed.

3. I want to emphasize California natives; but also include
a section on invasive exotics, so people can see what not to
plant.

4. For each picture submitted, I will need the following infor-
mation: identification of content, date and place the picture
was taken, name and contact information for photographer.
I am happy to scan slides and prints.

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5. Pictures of whole plants, branches, leaves, flowers, acorns,
galls, etc. are welcome. I prefer that the pictures be sent to me
as they come out of the camera.

Do you have or can you take pictures to submit? Or do you
know others who might have or who might like to take,
pictures of plants in Claremont Canyon, and who would be

willing to have them included in the gallery?

Kay Loughman
393 Gravatt Drive
Berkeley, CA 94705
510-841-7428

kayloughman@earthlink.net

NATIVE HERE NURSERY

We've started planning for our second annual Native Plant
Fair October 21-22, with a rain date of October 27-28. It will
take place at the nursery, and we'll need people to help get
the nursery and plants ready for sale as well as help the days
of the fair. This summer we'll need volunteers to help at the
nursery with plant propagation, watering, transplanting,
weeding, as well as recruitment of speakers for both days
of the fair. Closer to the event we'll need volunteers to help
with publicity, plant transportation and parking lay-out, hold-
ing area setup, and more. On the day of the fair we'll need
volunteers to help with sales and sales write up, cashiering,
traffic control, hospitality, vendor care, plant holding and
transportation, and more. To help out email nativehere@
ebcnps.org or leave a message at 510-549-0211.

We've put the Douglas iris in storage, so it won't be available
again until the Native Plant Fair. Now is not a good time to

plant, but you can see what we will have available in the fall.
Gregg Weber has been making many cuttings of shrubs and
trees for us, so we'll have a better selection of those in large
pots in the coming months.

Tuesday mornings we go on seed collecting walks to gather
seed for propagation at the nursery. If you would like to join
us, meet at the bottom gate of the nursery at 9 am. To get on
the e-mail reminder list, contact nativehere@ebcnps.org.

Native Here Nursery is located in Tilden Park at 101 Golf
Course Drive, across the street from the entrance to the Tilden
Golf Course. Contact info: 510-549-0211, nativehere@ebcnps.
org, www.ebcnps.org, click on Native Here link.

Margot Cunningham

The plant fair planning meeting at the Native Here Nursery. The fair is scheduled for October 20 and 21 . Even if youy did not attend the plan-
ning meeting you can help with the fair. E-mail nativehere@ebcnps.org and let us know what your interests are. Photo by Janice Bray

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Save' the/ Vote/

NATIVE HERE NURSERY CLEAN-UP PARTY
AND ANNUAL POTLUCK PICNIC
for the EAST BAY CHAPTER of CNPS

Sunday, September 16, 2007
10 am-3 pm

AT NATIVE HERE NURSERY

101 Golf Course Road (across from the Golf Course entrance)

in Tilden Park, Berkeley

Bring gardening tools (gloves, pruners, rakes, hoes)
and a dish to share (appetizer, main dish, side dish, or dessert).

We’ll supply wine and beer, soft drinks, and all the tools for eating.

We’ll spend a couple of hours in the morning preparing the nursery for our
October Native Plant Fair and then shift into picnic mode. Along with great food
and drink, enjoy the company of fellow native plant enthusiasts and our
traditional, everyone-wins native plant raffle.

All are welcome — invite your family and friends!

For more information: 510-496-6016, rosacalifornica@earthlink.net, or

nativehere@ebcnps.org

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CONSERVATION ANALYST FUND

Our CNPS chapter, our Conservation Committee, and our
Conservation Analyst thank all of our members who have so
generously donated to the 2007-2008 Conservation Analyst
Fund so far. The response to our letter of appeal has been
wonderful in the first few weeks and we hope donations
will continue to come in. At the time of this writing (checks
processed by our Treasurer as of June 15), we have received
$20,630 in donations, but we need an additional $9189 to
sustain the Conservation Analyst program through the end
of the fiscal year (March, 2008).

There is still time to make a donation. To do so, make your
check payable to CNPS, indicate in the memo line that it is
for the Conservation Analyst Fund, and mail it to:

CNPS, East Bay Chapter
PO. Box 5597, Elmwood Station
Berkeley, CA 94705

We thank the following members for their contributions dur-
ing the month of May:

Linda Adams, John Alcorn, John K. Anderson, Steve Asztalos,
Joe Balciunas, Philip Batchelder, Bob Battagin, Laura Beckett,
David Bigham & Howard Arendtson, Peter Boffey, Aria Bon-
nett, Margaret A. Bowman, Robert Case, Patricia E. Coffey,
Alex Craig, Eleanor Crary, Rick Dalgetty, Charlice & John
Danielsen, Judy Davis, Adrienne Debisschop, Susan Deming,

O'Neil & Marcia Dillon, John T. & Lisa Doyen, Catherine C.
Dunlap, Arthur K. & Norma M. Dunlop, Claire Englander,
Chris Erickson, John A. Ferguson, W. B. Flick, Gerald Ford &
Holly Forbes, Norman C. Frank, Dorothy Frantz, Jerry & Irene
Fritzke, Sara & Jean H. Gabriel, Christa Goldblatt, Marilyn
Goldhaber, Paul Grunland, Judith Ann Gurbaxani, Joan Ham-
ilton, Mary Ann Hannon, Marguerite & John B. Harrell, John
H. Heckman, Claudia and Scott Hein, Sarah Herman, Joseph
Herr, Jo Ann Herr, Peter Hopkinson, Lesley D. Hunt, Diane
Ichiyasu, Clark Jen, Robert Jolda, Larry M. Jones, Suzanne
Jones & Robert Elia, Meredith Kaplan, Tim S. Kask, Bohun B.
Kinloch, Jr., Arti Kirch, Marcia Kolb, Carolyn Kolka, Jill Korte,
Thomas Koster, Ralph Kraetsch, W. M. Laetsch, Barbara M.
& Philip Leitner, Ed Leong, R. M. Lichtenstein, David Loeb,
Lois Lutz, Cinda MacKinnon, William J. McClung, William
B. McCoy & Natasha Beery, Sylvia C. McLaughlin, Louise
A. Miller, Lech Naumovich, Linda M. Newton, Harriet
Nye, David Ogden, Mary Ann Osborne, Elizabeth O'Shea,
Helen & Tom Phillips, Catherine Powers, Peter Rauch, Marcia
Rautenstrauch, Marian Reeve, Tom Reid, Susan L. Rosenthal,
R. Steven Ruley, Celeste Scanlon, Brenda Senturia, Sigman
& Debbie Shapiro, Doris Sloan, Erin Smith, Lincoln Smith,
Nicki Spillane, Alfred B. Stansbury, Ruth & Donald Stiver,
Sylvia Lyn Sykora, Charles E. Violet, Joyce Walton, Shoshana
Wechsler, Roy & Carolyn West, Marshall White & Jennifer
Meux White, Tamara Wood, Elaine P. Worthington-Jackson,
George & Carol Yokoi.

Calochortus argillosus on Fairmount Ridge. Photo by Gregg Weber

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Board of Directors

Elected Officers

President
Charli Danielsen
510-549-0211
charlid@pacbell.net

Vice President
Delia Taylor
510-527-3912
deliataylor@mac.com

Treasurer
Holly Forbes
hforbes@berkeley.edu
h 510-234-2913
w 510-643-8040
FAX 510-642-5045

Recording Secretary
Barbara Malloch Leitner
925-253-8300
bleitner@pacbell.net

Corresponding Secretary
Laura Baker
510-849-1409
Lbake66@aol.com

Past President
Elaine Jackson
925-372-0687
Elainejx@mindspring.com

Education/Outreach

Bay Leaf Editor and Webmaster
Joe Willingham

510-841-4681

pepel 066@comcast.net

Bay Leaf Assistant Editor
David Margolies
510-654-0283
divaricatum@comcast.net

Bay Leaf Mailing
Holly Forbes
510-234-2913
hforbes@berkeley.edu

Education
Linda Hill
510-849-1624
Lhilllink@aol.com

Field Trips

Janet Gawthrop

Janetg24@excite.com

Regional Parks Botanic Garden
Liaison

Sue Rosenthal
510-496-6016

rosacalifornica@earthlink.net

Grants

Sandy McCoy

sandymccoy@mindspring .com

Plant Sale
Interim Chair
Sue Rosenthal
510-496-6016

rosacalifornica@earthlink.net

Programs
Sue Rosenthal
510-496-6016

rosacalifornica@earthlink.net

Publicity/Media

open

Conservation

Conservation Committee Chair
Laura Baker
510-849-1409
Lbake66@aol.com

Conservation Analyst (Staff)
Lech Naumovich
510 734-0335
conservation@ebcnps.org

Stewardship

Native Plant Restoration Team
Greg Wolford
510-848-6489
californica@mac.com

510-549-0211

nativehere@ebcnps.org

Plant Science

Bryophytes
John Game
510-527-7855
jcgame@lbl.gov

Rare Plants
Heath Bartosh
925-957-0069

hbartosh@nomadecology.com

Unusual Plants
Dianne Lake
510-741-8066
diannelake@yahoo.com

Vegetation
Erin McDermott
erinmcd2004@yahoo.com
(c) 510-701-2890

Members at Large

Carol Castro

510-352-2382

carollbcastro@hotmail.com

Gregg Weber
510-223-3310

Hospitality

open

Membership

open

Roy West

rwest@monocot.com
650-906-1100

ager

Janice Bray, Liaison to Board

Native Here Nursery

Charli Danielsen Project Manager

Margot Cunningham Sales Man-

Membership Application

Name

Address

Zip Telephone

I wish to affiliate with:

East Bay Chapter (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)

Other

Membership category:

Student, Limited income, $25

Individual, Library, $45

Household, Family, or Group, $75

Supporting, $75

Plant lover, $100

Patron, $300

E-mail Benefactor, $600

(optional) Mariposa Lily, $1500

Mail application and check to: California Native Plant Society, 2707 K Street, Suite 1 , Sacramento CA 95816

California Native Plant Society
East Bay Chapter
P.O. Box 5597, Elmwood Station
Berkeley CA 94705

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Oakland, CA
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